81: Chapter 81: Immortal Arts? Use them to generate electricity!

Sect Leader Lu Yun could already imagine the iron tower collapsing under his single strike. He wanted to use this method to let these mortals see who was the true master.

But the scene that followed made the smug expression on his face freeze.

That massive blade of light struck the top of the tower, dead center.

The explosion he had anticipated did not occur; there wasn't even a sound. That blade of light, capable of splitting mountains and shattering stones, simply vanished without a trace the moment it touched the tower's peak.

Instead, a low, rumbling sound emanated from the tower's body.

The entire "Donghai Pearl Tower" suddenly lit up with a layer of pale golden light. Immediately after, countless LED lights on the tower instantly turned to their brightest setting!

A blinding pillar of light shot into the sky, illuminating the night sky for several kilometers around to be brighter than broad daylight!

"Oh... my... god..."

The citizens below, who were filming with their phones, were blinded by the intense light and couldn't even open their eyes.

"What's going on? Why is the tower shining like this?"

"What about that beam of light from just now? Did the tower... eat it?"

"Is this tower a power bank?!"

Sect Leader Lu Yun hovered in mid-air, his mouth agape, completely bewildered.

He looked at his empty space-splitting ruler, then at the terrifyingly bright iron tower, his mind unable to process anything.

"Where did my... that massive strike from just now... go?"

He could feel that his full-strength strike, infused with eighty percent of his spiritual power, had been dismantled, consumed, and replaced by some unknown power the moment it hit the target...

In the end, it had turned into... electricity to light up that tower?

This thought completely threw Sect Leader Lu Yun into chaos.

"What the hell... kind of game is this?!"

His spiritual power attack could be converted into the "electricity" that mortals use? This wasn't something any magical treasure or formation could achieve; this was suppression at the level of rules!

He was a cultivator, and the arts he unleashed were being used by others as fuel for generating electricity? This was even more humiliating than being slapped in the face!

His mind was in turmoil, and he couldn't hold back, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

He hadn't been injured by an attack; he was simply enraged and terrified. Being caused such distress by something completely beyond his understanding had thrown his spiritual power into chaos.

"Impossible... This is absolutely impossible..." he muttered despondently, his face showing only confusion and fear.

For the first time, he felt that his cultivation was a joke in front of these mortals.

Below, Director Zhao Lixin looked at the swaying, existential-crisis-stricken "Immortal Envoy" in mid-air, feeling incredibly satisfied.

He cleared his throat, picked up the megaphone again, and shouted toward the sky in a concerned and sincere tone:

"Oh my! Immortal Envoy Lu, what's wrong? Why are you spitting blood? You must take care of your health!"

"You see, this tower of ours is our latest 'Eco-friendly Energy-saving Landscape Tower.' It can absorb light energy, heat energy, kinetic energy... oh, and now it seems it can also absorb spiritual energy. That move of yours just now was truly powerful; it directly filled our tower's electricity quota for the next month!"

"On behalf of the twenty million citizens of Donghai City, thank you! Thank you for your outstanding contribution to our energy conservation and emission reduction efforts!"

Director Zhao Lixin spoke these words with genuine emotion. But to Sect Leader Lu Yun's ears, every word stabbed at his heart like a knife.

Thank me? Thank me for generating electricity for you?

"Urgh!" Sect Leader Lu Yun could no longer hold it back and spat out another mouthful of blood, swaying in the air and nearly plummeting down.

He understood everything now. These mortals had never been afraid of him from the very beginning. They were... playing with him!

They were treating him like a monkey, using him as a free target to test the performance of that strange tower!

What a great humiliation! He, Sect Leader Lu Yun, the pride of the Tianyan Sect, had never suffered such an insult in his entire life!

"You... you are courting death!" Sect Leader Lu Yun's eyes turned red instantly, and his rage burned away his last shred of reason.

He no longer cared about the things he didn't understand. Now, he had only one thought: at any cost, destroy the people below, destroy that tower, and destroy this city!

He was just about to risk damaging his vital essence to use a forbidden technique when a cold, emotionless woman's voice suddenly rang out directly inside his head.

This voice was completely different from the crude one that required a megaphone to be heard. The voice was incredibly clear, sounding directly in his mind, yet it was aloof, looking down on him with cold indifference.

"Experimental data collection complete."

"Attack model, defense model, and energy conversion model have all been established."

"Evaluation report: Target, Sect Leader Lu Yun, Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivator. Thinking patterns are rigid, combat techniques are singular, lacks flexibility, and is easily swayed by emotions. Comprehensive assessment: No long-term threat."

"Processing recommendation: Given that he possesses partial basic knowledge of the Immortal-Mortal Realm and has certain research value, it is recommended to... capture him alive and recruit him."

The series of cold evaluations, every single word sounding like a death sentence, caused Sect Leader Lu Yun to instantly plummet from the height of rage into an ice pit.

The blood in his body ran cold. He jerked his head up, his divine sense frantically scanning the surroundings, trying to find the source of the voice.

Who? Who on earth is speaking?!

The owner of this voice had been watching him from the very beginning, analyzing and evaluating him like a lab specimen! And he had been a fool, walking step by step into their trap!

"Who?! Get out here!" Sect Leader Lu Yun roared hoarsely, his voice cracking from fear.

"As you wish."

The cold voice rang out again. This time, the sound came from the top of the "Donghai Pearl Tower" in front of him.

On the observation deck at the top of the tower, a young girl wearing a white T-shirt and sweatpants was standing there, though no one knew when she had arrived.

She looked to be around twenty years old and was quite pretty, but there was no emotion in her gaze, which was terrifyingly vacant.

She stood there quietly, looking down at Sect Leader Lu Yun in mid-air. Her gaze... was not looking at a person, but at a specimen ready to be packed and sent to the laboratory.

She was Jiang Ning.